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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

#bookreview: Exodus 2022

Joe Stanton wakes up searching for his missing daughter - the daughter he knows is dead... the daughter he never had. This bizarre hallucination is only the beginning of a wild ride that Joe and his girlfriend, Ella, find themselves on - one that includes a billionaire weapons contractor, a genius scientist, telepathy, the future of life on the earth and Joe's impending death.

I totally loved Exodus 2022! I'd read it halfway before bed on
Monday night and was intending to do stuff on Tuesday morning, being a public holiday, but partially because I was lazy and also because I really had to know what happened I ended up spending the whole morning finishing the book.

The story has a very strong environmental thrust and some paranormal overtones. I'd hesitate to say fantasy... it has a more "religious" feel to it (i.e. other higher power, good vs evil).

I only had 3 issues with this book, which isn't quite major enough to warrant any drop in my rating, but I figured I would mention them here:
1. Iffy formatting in the kindle version made some awkward line breaks between sentences. It didn't affect the sentences or meanings or anything, but was just a little annoying.
2. Priest with tattoos, long-hair, earrings and on holiday together with his girlfriend? Not something that would normally be tolerated in churches where I'm from, but then again I don't know much about the Episcopal church.
3. The ending (which was happy/tragic for me) raised one... question...

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About the book: Joe Stanton is in agony. Out of his mind over
the death of his young daughter. Or so it seems.
Unable to contain his grief, Joe loses control in public, screaming his daughter’s name and
causing a huge scene at a hotel on San Juan Island in Washington State. Thing is, Joe Stanton
doesn’t have a daughter. Never did. And when the authorities arrive they blame the 28-year-
old’s outburst on drugs.
What they don’t yet know is that others up and down the Pacific coast—from the Bering Sea
to the Puget Sound—are suffering identical, always fatal mental breakdowns.
With the help of his girlfriend—the woman he loves and dreams of marrying—Joe struggles
to unravel the meaning of the hallucination destroying his mind. As the couple begins to
perceive its significance—and Joe’s role in a looming global calamity—they must also outwit a
billionaire weapons contractor bent on exploiting Joe’s newfound understanding of the cosmos,
and outlast the time bomb ticking in Joe’s brain.

About the author: Kenneth G. Bennett is the author of the young
adult novels, THE GAIA WARS and BATTLE FOR CASCADIA, and the new sci-fi thriller,
EXODUS 2022. A wilderness enthusiast who loves backpacking, skiing and kayaking, Ken
enjoys mysteries, science fiction, action adventure stories and, most especially, novels that
explore the relationship between humans and the wild. He lives on an island in the Pacific
Northwest with his wife and son and two hyperactive Australian Shepherds.

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